Into the Mournland Group 1 IC

[Hairb]

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[Inhuman Bot]

Prophisised by dragons.......temperd by magic...... Foraged in war....

998 yk, zol the 21st, month Eyre.

New Cyre.

(Before we get started, I don't have much time, so the who what when where and whys will be done in a day or so. Until then, you're in new Cyre and talking to the prince. Also he's asked you to do a few missions beforehand.)

As you approach prince Oargev, he motions for you to sit in some chairs in front of him. His meeting room is lavish, with beautifly painted walls, along with statues carved by Cyran artificers. After you sit down, he begins to speak: "Greetings adventurers. I am glad that you responded to my call, for I have faith in you, from your earlier triumphs. As you have heard, I have discovered several artifacts, seen by scouts and scavengers. I would like you to recover these artifacts and return them to me. Now, of course there is the matter of payment. I am willing to offer 8,000 gold peices to each of you, and another 1,000 up front. Does this sound reasonable?"

[vargen]

Zenda curtsy for the prince "It sounds very reasonable, providing that there will not be that great deal of trouble in retrieving the artifacts"

[Inhuman Bot]

The prince responds: "I'am unsure of how well some of the artifacts will be guarded. I do know that one of them, a Titan schema is in the possesion of some of the lord of blades' followers.

[Frosty]

The Warforged wielding a rather deadly-looking chain looks on as he calculates what little he knows about the Mournlands into the risk equation. "These artifacts...could you tell us as to what they supposed do?" Bastion asks.

[Cogito]

An androgynous-looking humanoid with light grey skin sat down on the rightmost chair. He is wearing simple, sand-coloured robes which would make her look somewhat like one of those kalashtar mystics, if not for the two lavishly decorated rings on his hands and the finely-wrought headband of mithral on her bald head.
Syx's completely white eyes travel from person to person as they begin to speak, and finally come to rest on the prince. For now, Syx remains silent.

[Inhuman Bot]

The prince responds "Yes, of course. The artifacts I'am most interested in are: The titan schemas. They have plans for increasing the inteligance and strength of a warforaged titan. Another set of plans are for a more powerful iron defender, one is able to make use of wands. Thirdly, A final messenger. A week after the Day of Mourning, A final messenger came to me from one of my scouts. The message said that he had found another final messnger, one that may contain information relating to Cyre's destruction." The prince continues "If you are all satisfied, then I will begin to arrange your tranportaion to the mournland immediatly. Also, one of my scouts and His guard will accompany you, to show you where the artifacts were last seen.

[Ditto]

Tirk Also

A pair of bright blue eyes lit up at the mention of the final item - knowledge of Cyre's devastation would prove fascinating, should substantive accounts actually exist. She leaned forward on the table with her slender arms, poking out of the heavy cloak that swaddled the slight human form beneath. "I would, of course, suggest that we elect to begin with the item that is *not* currently rumored to be associated with the Lord of Blades."

[Cogito]

Syx

"I don't care which artifact we retrieve first. But I do care about me getting paid well, even if you seemingly don't."

Sitting up from a more relaxed position and leaning forward, Syx addresses the prince.

"I have great sympathy for what happened to Cyre, a nation I had the chance to enjoy living in for quite a while. Still, if the rumors are true, money is nevertheless no great issue for New Cyre, and I myself have been paid more by Cyran nobles for small pieces of lost cyran art. For that reason I would be grateful if the initial offer could be increased by, shall we say, 3000 gp? In turn I am quite willing to forgo any payment up front, to make it 11000 gp total."

[Inhuman Bot]

The prince thinks for a moment then says "allright. I will increase the inital payment, but for this I would ask you see if you could reterive an unguarded object, whose wherabouts I know"

[Cogito]

Syx

"If this doesn't inconvenience the search for the other items too much we have a deal."

[Inhuman Bot]

"excellent.You willdepart tommorow. Also, each of you take these" The prince hands you each a ring. "It will aid you in mving through the dead-grey mist, and provide sanctuary for when you rest. Good luck, heros. "the prince walks motions you out of the room, as a guard escorts you to were you will be staying until tommorow.

[Cogito]

Syx

Syx bows in response to the prince's gift. "Thank you, this will facilitate our journey."

Once outside, the changeling sighs. "These formalities always seem to be the hardest part, I can't stand this look."
With a look of deep concentration the changeling's grey skin quickly changes color, and a few seconds later a young man of around 20 has replaced the featureless grey humanoid. Dark brown hair, well-groomed, almost like one of those explorer illustrations you often see in the Chronicle. "Better. I suppose we should discuss a few matters before we start for the Mournland, I'll just get my stuff from the local inn. See you in a few minues."
With that he heads towards the room he had rented for the night and gets his stuff to his new lodgings.

[MammonAzrael]

Ornmolik

The large, unusual warforged turns to his companion once they have left the company of the prince. "Well Aalev, what do you think? It looks like the rumors your mother heard were well founded."

The 20-something human it is addressing nods with an enormous grin on her face."Just think, possible answer to the destruction of Cyre! Mother has always been curious about that! Do you really thing the prince has a good lead? Oh this will be so fascinating!"

The reptilian warforged smiles (or tries to) at his charges' excitement. " Yes it does look like this could turn out to be more of a boon than she initially anticipated."

They follow the guards to their rooms, keeping fairly quite unless approached.

[Cogito]

Syx

Coming back with all his stuff, now equipped with a dagger and wrapped in a dark grey cloak, Syx tries to get everybody in one room.

"So, here I am again. Shall we discuss the important stuff now? Like, who is gonna be able to patch me up when it comes to fights?"

(Assuming he can get at least one other person to sit down with him)

[vargen]

Zenda sits down in the room Syx has found.

From the look of her equipment that she has with her, she travels very light. A dagger in her belt and a shield on her back seems to be her whole equipment.

Other then that she wears a long brown/green cloak and a blue tunic reaching down to the floor.

I'm afraid that I do much more damage then I can heal, if you don't count my trusted healing-belt...never enter a dungeon without it!"

[MammonAzrael]

Ornmolik

"I'm afraid my companion and I have little experience with the healing arts. We do not have the skills to repair you should you become damaged."

Aside from a couple daggers hanging at the automaton's waist, neither it nor it's companion appeared armed. The young lady pokes around the room, looking at carious objects, art, and such, before settling down on a luxurious couch. The warforged stands behind her, a clear message of guardianship.

[Frosty]

The Warforged known only as Bastion speaks up again after a long while of silence. "I have been known to get inspiration from..." He seems to have difficulty with this part. "...from the heavens to be able to heal some moderate amount of wounds in battle as I fight for what I believe in. I am also skilled in the trade of the blacksmith, so I can perform repairs on ones such as myself and the others like me." he gesturs toward Ornmolik.

[MammonAzrael]

Ornmolik

"Thank you for the offer, but it is far more likely that I will be helping to repair you. Though this healing ability you possess sounds most...interesting. I look forward to seeing it in action."

[Inhuman Bot]

A man, wearing clothes with prince Oargevs crest knocks on your door and walks in, saying "terrably sorry to interupt but the prince has decided it would be prudent to give you these arcane artifacts, to make your journy easier" The man lay down several items before hurridly moving out of the room.

The items

Golem crasher: 1/day, does 3d12 damage to target construct, no save.(1)

The princes rings: a spell that gives you a +10 bonus on checks to avoid getting lost in the mist, also makes a leomunds secure shelter protected by an alarm, sepia snake sigil, mordankanis hound, glyphs and wards, and Guard the home spells. 1/5 days (1 each)

Gatekeeper talisman: one use, makes magic circle against aberrations, and attempts to turn them and does 2d6 damage to abberations in the area. (2)

Amulet of retreat: teleports you back to New Cyre and allows user and allies to go back (affects 12 people) 1/5day. (1)

a +2 undead bane/+2 Disruption qurter staff.

[Cogito]

Syx

"The prince does wnat us to succeed no matter what, it seems.

Syx inspects the items for a while before returning t o the amtter at at hand by withdrawing a wand form under his belt.

"So it seems we have no trained cleric amongst us. That's fine with me, but I'd feel a bit more at ease if one of you could use this."

[MammonAzrael]

Ornmolik

"I should be able to operate it, I am well versed with much magic."

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Magic Insight to Identify the wand if Syx doesn't volunteer the information.

[Cogito]

Syx

"Very well, then take it and give me a heal or to when it's getting ugly, thank you. That's settled, then, and from the composition of our group I suppose the straight-forward approach is our best option, don't you think?"

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Wand of Cures Medium Wounds, but no, Syx doesn't mention that specifically at this moment.

[Ditto]

Tirk

Walking in as Syx flourishes the wand, Tirk says, "I'm handy with those, but I'm also just as handy healing with these." She wiggles her fingers in the air. "I missed the gear party, it seems. I like the look of this staff-" she says, hefting the weapon in her hands, "-but I'm more useful in other areas. I'd sooner deal with obstacles with the wide array of magic at my disposal."

[Cogito]

Syx

"Very well, I think we have a solid group now. I don't see any reason to discuss further matters before we actually know where exactly we will be going. If you excuse me, I'll go and get some sleep. Good night."

Syx takes one of the prince's rings, but nothing else. He also leaves his wand behind.
He leaves for his room and after pndering over some things, he lies back on the bed, relaxing for while beofre drifting off to sleep.

[Inhuman Bot]

????

A figure speaks in a deep voice: "Are the adventurers coming here?" Another says "They are, my lord. "Let them aquire the artifacts. They have more value then that fools prince and his thugs know." the figure continues " Who stands in out way, only the sellswords?" The second figure replies "they are the only ones of any consequence" The first turns and says "Go. Have Morak prepare a suprise for them." The second figure smiles and says "would it be any other way?" and walks off.

[Cogito]

Syx

If listended closely to, a rythmic and almost musical snoring comes from Syx's room only interrupted by a strange dream.

[Frosty]

Bastion

The warforged, spends the night checking and double checking all of his weapons and equipment, sharpening those that need sharpening. If the other, stranger-looking warforged would permit, Bastion would spend parts of the night conversion with Ornmolik, asking Ornmolik about what Ornmolik might want outof this job, and why Ornmolik is protecting who he is protecting.

[MammonAzrael]

Ornmolik

Ornmolik will gladly spend the night conversing with Bastion, when not answering or explaining something to his ward. He will explain that he is here primarily to watch over Aalev, as she gains experience in the world. He will leave out that she is a dragon, and if needed will simply say she is part of a powerful family. They are on this mission for the chance of learning something new about Cyre, not as mercenaries. And of course, Ornmolik will inquire in turn.

Outside of that, Ornmolik will spend most of it's time watching over Aalevilex.

EDIT: Ornmolik and Aalevilex will both take one of the prince's rings, but nothing else.

[vargen]

Zenda

Zenda takes a quick look over the items but takes only the ring for herself.

Wandering off to her room she listens about what the others are talking about but decides that one last light in her warm bed is more appealing then staying up talking all night.